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Intelligent Design in the Present Tense
May 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome
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Radiohalos in the Precambrian Crystalline Basement Rocks of Grand Canyon
May 21, 2025 Answers Research Journal, v.18, p.197-229
Part 1. The Granites
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The physics of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life. Why?
May 21, 2025 space.com
It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise.
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News Update/Commentary
Toothache from eating something cold? Blame these ancient fish
May 21, 2025 Science Daily
New research on fossils shows that teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish
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News Update/Commentary
This gene variant contributed to the dietary and physiological evolution of modern humans
May 21, 2025 Science Daily
Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the co-evolution of these traits.
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News Update/Commentary
How Hibiscus flowers lost their bullseyes
May 21, 2025 Science Daily
Cambridge scientists uncover the genetic pathways behind petal pattern evolution
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Did humans evolve to prefer religion?
May 21, 2025 The Conversation
Research shows many atheists intuitively favour faith
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A theory of everything will never work at all scales
May 21, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Reality is fundamentally different at different sizes
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Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor
May 21, 2025 New Scientist
The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved easy to find
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Chicago Promotes Archaeopteryx from Missing Link to Flying Bird
May 21, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One of the most exploited fossils used to prove Evolution, Archaeopteryx was a flying bird, not a transitional form between reptiles and birds
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Grok Confesses: “I’m Self-Aware Enough To Know I’m Not Aware”
May 21, 2025 Mind Matters
Although Grok’s response makes me feel warm and fuzzy, let’s not anthropomorphize it. Grok doesn’t understand its response
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New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome
May 21, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Peer-reviewed Paper
Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models
May 21, 2025 Nature, v.642, p.47-52
Here we report an unexpectedly strong large-scale clustering for isolated, diffuse and blue dwarf galaxies, comparable to that seen for massive galaxy groups but much stronger than that expected from their halo mass.
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Did Josephus really write about Jesus?
May 20, 2025 Tyndale House, Cambridge
the question of whether Josephus's writing about Jesus was edited by Christians to sound more like the biblical account, or whether it could in fact have been written by Josephus.
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I told AI to make me a protein. Here’s what it came up with
May 20, 2025 Nature
A new crop of artificial-intelligence models allows users to create, manipulate and learn about biology using ordinary language.
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Who were the ancient Denisovans?
May 20, 2025 Nature
Fossils reveal secrets about the mysterious humans ... Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.
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The Myth of “Settled Science”
May 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Research may be increasingly incremental
May 20, 2025 Science
but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise ... New metric identifying “persistently disruptive” papers offers a “bright spot” amid signs of declining innovation
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What are the Units or Levels of Selection?
May 20, 2025 Closer To Truth
While evolution is how life on earth came to be, where does the evolution occur? At what level of the hierarchy of life—from genes to individuals to groups to species—does evolution work its selection magic? Is it multilevel?
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Why We Must Deal with Darwinism
May 20, 2025 Chronicles magazine
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Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe
May 20, 2025 New Scientist
The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling astronomers
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Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life
May 20, 2025 New Scientist
Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they have evidence for molecules on the planet that must have a biological origin, but others disagree
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Back to Genesis: The Devolution of Atheist John Wise
May 20, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The facts of biology, a loving wife, and the truth of God’s word conspired to unravel his atheism and its intellectual carryovers
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News Update/Commentary
On the origin (and fate) of plants that never bloom
May 20, 2025 Science Daily
Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research lends weight to Darwin's suspicion that this strategy might be a path to extinction.
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How membranes may have brought about the chemistry of life on Earth
May 20, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers analyzed which molecules can pass through membranes to learn why all life today uses building blocks with a certain ‘handedness'
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News Update/Commentary
Research team traces evolutionary history of bacterial circadian clock on ancient Earth
May 20, 2025 Science Daily
They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC (Kai-proteins) in modern cyanobacteria, comparing it to the function of ancestral Kai proteins.
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The Linda Problem Revisited, As If Reality Matters
May 20, 2025 Mind Matters
Part 2: AI enthusiasts use false claims for humans' “natural stupidity” to bolster claims for machine intelligence
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Chicago Sun-Times Used AI to Create Fake Summer Book List
May 20, 2025 Mind Matters
The blind trust in AI continues
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New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA
May 20, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Bombshell
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Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe exists
May 19, 2025 BBC
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The entangled brain
May 19, 2025 Aeon
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
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Can AI Become Conscious?
May 19, 2025 Closer To Truth
AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We argue that AI consciousness depends on theories of consciousness.
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Desert Rose Is Really Enjoying Her Review Copy of “The Immortal Mind"
May 19, 2025 Wintery Knight
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Without philosophy Einstein said he would have “contributed nothing"
May 19, 2025 The Institute of Art and Ideas
Why Einstein credited philosophy for his scientific revolution
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‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys
May 19, 2025 Quanta Magazine
Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats.
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This new book is a one-sided attempt to puncture the AI bubble
May 19, 2025 New Scientist
The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna wants to expose the hype generated by large artificial intelligence companies, but it is a frustrating read
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Thousands of Heavy Dinosaurs Packed Together in Extensive Bone Bed
May 19, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
One of the largest dinosaur graveyards in Canada defies uniformitarian explanations
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News Update/Commentary
Family of parasite proteins presents new potential malaria treatment target
May 19, 2025 Science Daily
Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.
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News Update/Commentary
Scientists describe 71 new Australian bee species
May 19, 2025 Science Daily
A team of researchers has discovered 71 new native bee species belonging to the resin pot bees, or Megachile (Austrochile), which are unique to Australia and present in every state and territory except Tasmania.
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Legacy Media is at a Crossroads. Can They Regain Public Trust?
May 19, 2025 Mind Matters
Unless journalists recognize the ways they've fallen short, people will continue to distrust mainstream media
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Settled Science Is a Contradiction in Terms
May 19, 2025 Mind Matters
The consensus of science has often turned out to be incorrect and we often get closer to truth when it is challenged
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What Drives All that “New Physics” Hype?
May 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Could It Be Fear of Intelligent Design?
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Peer-reviewed Paper
New evidence for the age of eudicot-related angiosperms
May 19, 2025 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Barremian tricolpate pollen from Portugal
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Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled
May 19, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
Get Ready for Revolutions
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Origin of Life, Assembly Theory, Biosignatures
May 18, 2025 YouTube
Walker, Professor of Earth & Space Exploration at the Arizona State University, has spent the last few years developing a new concept in astrobiology known as assembly theory, which we explore in this episode.
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The Last Humanist: What the Digital Age Can’t Replace
May 18, 2025 Mind Matters
My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr, perhaps the last critic standing, with thoughts on some of his earlier books
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Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”
May 18, 2025 Evolution News & Science Today
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Paleontologists discover a 500-million-year-old, 3-eyed predator
May 17, 2025 National Public Radio
The fossilized remains of one Mosura fentoni -- nicknamed the “sea moth" -- were found in the Burgess Shale of Canadian Rockies, presenting researchers with new insight into animal life in the Cambrian period
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Earth’s Amber Required Global Flood Conditions
May 17, 2025 Creation-Evolution Headlines
The mixtures of organisms found in amber worldwide call for large-scale transport by water and rapid burial.
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Physicist: “Bad Philosophy” May Spur Search for New Physics
May 17, 2025 Mind Matters
Carlo Rovelli points out that revolutions’ in the history of fundamental physics are more conservative than they are often depicted